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Plot Summary:
The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: spiritual, serious, captivating, atmospheric, stylized, mystical, mind bending, psychedelic, social, smart
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Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
Plot Summary:
Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spiritual, sad, controversial, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative
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The Zohar Secret (2016)
Plot Summary:
Max finds himself in possession of an ancient scroll that describes the entire history of humankind from beginning to end. Seeking to use the information for his own gain, Max triggers the mechanism that begins influencing his own life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel, USA, Ukraine, Spain
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, epic, thought provoking, esoteric, spiritual, serious, contemplative
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Riverworld (2010)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Riverworld, a place of strange, watery beauty and the current abode of a fascinating cast of the recently (and not-so-recently) dead. It certainly isn't Heaven, but it just might be Hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, bleak, serious, intellectual, suspenseful
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The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
Plot Summary:
Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspense, tense, sentimental
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Walking with the Ferryman (2014)
Plot Summary:
An emotional fantasy in which a grieving gay man must open disbelieving eyes to the possibility of supernatural and mythological worlds in order to gain opportunity for reconciliation with a lover lost to apparent suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, queer cinema
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Deja Vu (1985)
Plot Summary:
A choreographer who believes that he was reincarnated believes that his present wife possesses the soul of his wife in his previous wife, a ballerina.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Kosmos (2009)
Plot Summary:
Too much happens too many times in this potentially brilliant parable.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Turkey, Bulgaria
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, art house, psychological, entertaining, surreal, aesthetic, mind bending, offbeat, semi serious
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Brightness (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mali, France, Burkina Faso, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, light
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God Is Brazilian (2003)
Plot Summary:
God decides to take a vacation, but first He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. For that, He goes to Brazil's northeast, where He believes there's a very good man for the job, however, during His mission, He becomes friend of a very smart young man.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, road movie, offbeat, contemplative
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The Shift (2009)
Plot Summary:
From the creators of You Can Heal Your Life: The Movie comes a compelling portrait of three modern lives in need of new direction and new meaning. In his first-ever movie, Wayne Dyer explores the spiritual journey in the second half of life when we long to find the purpose that is our unique contribution to the world. The powerful shift from the ego constructs we are taught early in life by parents and society—which promote an emphasis on achievement and accumulation—are shown in contrast to a life of meaning, focused on serving and giving back. Filmed on coastal California’s spectacular Monterey Peninsula, The Shift captures every person’s mid-life longing for a more purposeful, soul-directed life.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, spiritual, inspirational, existential, mystical
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Mitch Albom's For One More Day (2007)
Plot Summary:
A suicidal former baseball player is granted one more day with his deceased mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic
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Proof (2015)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant surgeon searches for proof of life after death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, mystical
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An American Christmas Carol (1979)
Plot Summary:
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional
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Heaven Sent (1994)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft and dies in the hospital. Due to some confusion in heaven, however, he is given three days to clean up his life with the help of a beginner angel - and save his mom.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Bab'Aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Hungary, France, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, atmospheric, road movie, sentimental, philosophical, spiritual, inspirational, visually stunning, christian film
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Goodbye to Language (2014)
Plot Summary:
About a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they no longer even speak the same language.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, stylized, avant garde, psychedelic, art house, erotic
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Cremaster 3 (2002)
Plot Summary:
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, stylized, serious, thought provoking, psychedelic, disturbing, independent film, avant garde
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Plot Summary:
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave - the birthplace of his first life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, disturbing, art house, philosophical, meditative, visually appealing, cerebral, slow cinema, contemplative
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I Am (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the City of Angels, despair and heartache are the daily mail -- delivered with painful regularity whether we want them or not. Through I AM, we join an eclectic cast as they try to untangle themselves from the web of sin. All along the way, they are each joined by a mysterious companion -- ever present with a loving guidance without judgment for their actions. The more they attempt to fix their lives, the deeper they sink into chaos, pain, and loss. In addition, we discover that sin is a matrix connecting even the most remote of strangers to one another. It is at this breaking point when we see the presence of this companion was no accident. He was the ever-loving constant who refused to abandon His people -- even when they abandoned Him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, spiritual, sincere, independent film
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Chico Xavier (2010)
Plot Summary:
A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, spiritual, esoteric, informative, realistic, disturbing
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Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)
Plot Summary:
Three people live in a remote Buddhist monastery near Mount Chonan: Hyegok, the old master; Yong Nan, a young man who has left his extended family in the city to seek enlightenment - Hyegok calls him Kibong!; and, an orphan lad Haejin, whom Hyegok has brought to the monastery to raise as a monk. The story is mostly Yong Nan's, told in flashbacks: how he came to the monastery, his brief return to the city, his vacillation between the turbulence of the world and his hope to overcome passions and escape the idea of self. We also see Hyegok as a teacher, a protector, and a father figure, and we watch Haejin make his way as a curious and nearly self-sufficient child.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: spiritual, slow cinema, psychedelic, thinking, aesthetic, psychological, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, captivating
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Defending Your Life (1991)
Plot Summary:
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, humorous, philosophical, sweet, light, spiritual, semi serious, funny, cult classic
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Hereafter (2010)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural thriller centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: sad, psychological, touching, emotional, suspense, sentimental, meditative, serious, philosophical, visually appealing
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After Life (1998)
Plot Summary:
After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: philosophical, surreal, emotional, spiritual, existential, psychological, sincere, touching, contemplative, stylized
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)
Plot Summary:
On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to his corporeal existence who help him understand the meaning of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: spiritual, emotional, touching, christian film, serious, psychological, mystical, inspirational, philosophical, sad
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Resurrection (2013)
Plot Summary:
Resurrection is an American fantasy drama television series based on the book The Returned by Jason Mott that follows the residents of Arcadia, Missouri, whose lives are upended when their loved ones return from the dead, unaged since their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, captivating, mind bending, tense, touching, surprise ending, teen, spooky
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Fluke (1995)
Plot Summary:
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his life, and realizes he wasn't such a good husband and father.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, light, semi serious, touching, entertaining, sad, cult classic, sweet, tear jerker
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Enter the Void (2009)
Plot Summary:
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, art house, visually stunning, philosophical, atmospheric, meditative, disturbing, surreal, cerebral, mindfuck
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Wings of Desire (1987)
Plot Summary:
Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants to become a mortal human thus giving up his heavenly life. Filmed in black and white and with a feeling of celebrating life.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: meditative, atmospheric, surreal, lyrical, cerebral, emotional, black and white, philosophical, art house, touching
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What Dreams May Come (1998)
Plot Summary:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, spiritual, emotional, tear jerker, cerebral, reflective, thought provoking